From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 17 09:18:11 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA10533 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 09:18:11 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA10527 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 09:18:10 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA26694; Tue, 17 Jan 95 09:19:43 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9501171619.AA26694@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Colorado 250 Tape Drive To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 9:19:42 MST Cc: babb@sedhps01.mdc.com, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.sax.de In-Reply-To: <22874.790355283@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 17, 95 07:08:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I think the number of people with working tape drives far outnumber the > > number of people with broken floppy drives, so the logic of the flag > > should be inverted, such that you set the flag to *disable* the probe. [ ... ] > I suggested this just a couple of days ago and got no comments back.. > Unless somebody pipes up soon, I will indeed do this for 2.1 I haven't heard the results since the floppy tape was moved to ft2; do people still get hangs? Which is more important for install, a guaranteed working floppy, or a conveniently already working floppy tape? Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.